Hello all, I bought my first powerkite yesterday in Huntington Beach, CA. It's a Prism 1.9 and it's AWESOME. I allready want to get a bigger one that I can catch air on. I am totally new to this and any help anyone can give me will be greatly appreciated. I am looking for places to go, other than the beach, and some kiteboarding or any other cool stuff that's possible with these cool kites. Have a great day.

Anthony

congrats! prism makes nice kites--you will find that kite very fun--you will also find that the bigger kites will be MUCH more powerful....... and finally, you will find that "catching some air" isnt a healthy activity, until you've had considerable flying time under your belt--and even then, its a risky proposition........most people use power kites to get moving in some manner, wether that be with a buggy,snowboard,mountain board,scudding or water kiteboarding.......

Definitely congratulations on the new kite and welcome to PKF!

As far as "catchin' air" goes... when you watch videos of people doing crazy jumps and freestyle tricks and such... unless it's a video specifically about crashing... all you really see is what happened when everything went right. And it's NOT as easy as it looks. Always happy to have another inductee in the power kiting community You're going to love it! It's an addiction. Fly the hell out of that Prism, and when you can pilot it blind so that you know exactly where it is in the sky by the feeling it makes when it pulls in your hands, then you're definitely ready to take it up a notch. Just PLEASE for the sake of us all, don't try to kite jump with it

BTW, welcome to the forum! If you have any questions, feel free to ask away! This is the most helpful, generous group of people I have ever met in my life. It's like a second family for most of us. I'm sure you'll fit right in!

Yup 3m absolute minimum size for jumping, and then the kite is moving about as fast as your reflexes can keep up! Zero float as well! don't do it on that, you'll likely get your first bits of safe (ish???) air on 5-6m kites.

My first kite was a snapshot 1.4 and I flew the heck out of that thing....

Welcome to the sport, mate.

We'll see what your kite quiver looks like a year from now!

protip: buy used from the forum, we won't let you buy lemons here!

Welcome to the funny farm. We have a wealth of knowlage to offer. If one of us does not know the answer another will.
Fly safe and watch out for others.

Welcome!
Take care out there - learn the wind, learn to fly and then try the silly stuff